for the first time in four months the most serious. prison riot. in israel. the war of words. with a presidential. welcome

to the program. once again on the border between israel and. palestinian militants launched rocket attacks on choose day and early this morning with israel responding back. cross. destroy a cease fire. by the death of a former. israeli prison. basically this was a very heated and uneasy morning for the region there have been protests in several cities including ramallah where i am right now as well there's no blues and hebron now hebron is something that we should be special attention to that was the hometown of. the prisoner who died just very recently in an israeli jail and we're expecting more protests

a very kind of i guess strenuous protest to take place there on thursday when when he will be buried there so we're watching out for that very closely but of course there was also the exchange of fire between israel and gaza for the first time since the november truce so really a lot of tension in the air now why is this happening this is happening because a palestinian prisoner sixty four sixty four year old prisoner died in an israeli jail after he was diagnosed with cancer in february or to be more precise he was diagnosed with cancer at the end of february now palestinians are accusing israel of not providing sufficient treatment to the man because he has complained about his health. actually in summer of last year and nothing literally nothing was done . no information was provided until march when doctors told him that he has cancer and literally has days left to live so of course this left

a lot of palestinians incredibly angry and of course there is you can see that their sentiments were best expressed by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas. we have sent a letter of complaint to the israeli government and to all the international institutions regarding this unfair action that israel calls the death of my sorrow in prison we will continue our struggle to free prisoners and i ask you to read a funeral prayer for. the minister for prisoner affairs of palestinian authority has also has also called on the international community. for an internationally led investigation into the death of the palestinian prisoner of course still people are outraged you have to understand this is the second palestinian prisoner to die in an israeli jail in two months in february a thirty year old man died in israeli jails from a heart attack that has also spawned a lot of protests so we're really at this very uneasy period in the in the in the

middle eastern conflict situation and we're watching it very closely because we can expect more clashes to be happening in the west in the west bank in palestinian territories as well as on the gaza israel border in the immediate future. he's going to go to a reporting right there and we did speak exclusively to model one of the guti just a bit earlier a member of the palestinian parliament and former minister of information he believes support for the palestinian cause is set to grow due to the injustice inflicted on the people by that of israel. these settlements and this are part of. even the american interest in having stability in the middle east those who think the situation in the middle east will remain as it is short sighted sooner than later with the prevalence of democracy you would see more and more people in the middle east side by the palestinians and demanding the right of the palestinians. you can watch of the full exclusive interview

with murder one about equality that will be here one hour to eighteen forty five g.m.t. . for now north korea has suspended south korean access to a joint industrial zone it's pyongyang's latest move in the ongoing conflict with washington and seoul the north also says it's restarting a nuclear reactor to beef up its arsenal after the u.s. moved its military closer to the korean peninsula a south korea based journalist joseph kim has this report from seoul. the south korean president is newly elected north korea doesn't want to test her limits and perhaps she's willing to change her policies towards north korea and the game's main objective is actually to start dialogues with the u.s. with north korea's recent what the u.s. calls provocations it's actually been easier for the united states to pivot its

military back and see something that the pentagon has said that it was wanting to do to rebalance back into east asia so because of this we've seen a larger increased presence of military expansion by the u.s. into east asia during these annual drills something that we haven't seen before we're seeing a lot of money spent despite the eighty five billion dollars budget cut that the u.s. is currently going through these threats from north korea or what people say are perceived threats have actually become common and landing to many people in south korea but this time around the rhetoric has actually gotten a lot harsher so many south koreans are actually getting more of an eerie feeling on what this might turn out to be i don't feel a direct threat but i'm getting a little anxious sense can't even the south korean government is taking a coup worse this time so it feels like it's getting closer when the u.s. is more forceful it has a less positive effect from the perspective of

a south korean citizen i feel anxious and it doesn't feel like protection. of an enemy first of all it's not the first time north korea has issued threats so to us we don't feel the threats we don't perceive them to be dangerous but it seems there are a lot of things happening inside kim regime it seems that the u.s. is doing those things to make correct evaluation on king john so that the nuclear problem doesn't see it and i'm putting stress with south korea with the joint military drills but i don't think it is really helping in terms of into korean peace to. this is our duty now the race for the top job has kicked off in venezuela as the country's acting president nicolas maduro prepares to take on his main opposition rival that of and the weak up rulers both are eyeing to replace the country's late charismatic president hugo chavez who died last month following a long battle with cancer i'm a daughter who is the former confidant and designated area chavez is looking to

continue in the footsteps of his predecessor. central state governor who's been dubbed the u.s. sponsored candidate has vowed to deliver a free model economy and strong welfare spending early and my colleague kevin owen spoke to dr francisco domingo's head of latin american studies at middlesex university he says despite the good intentions chances of scoring the top job. nicolas maduro has demonstrated to be a formidable communicate so easy person the several to use him for the land which he is the masses very he conveys very good messages he's very good very astute politically and i think he's doing very well that's why he's leading in the polls is gaining if you like from the spontaneous outpouring of grief or for chavez is he capitalizing that for want of a better word on the grief. oh i'm sure that is

a lot of sentiment about how chavez was a figure of atrazine the international media the population of venezuela realize how much he was loved. actually that came out in the streets to be a bit him farewell i think possibly was that because demonstration in the history of the country and any candidate whoever they all will be full is not to use it however the key point i think is the message people are saying you know the mother was saying to them do you want the continuation of what you had with him for forty years improve in a perfect need or do you want to go back to the bottle of republic which the british represent the masses in that sense is very clear. between ten to forty percent in the polls still to come through in the program here on our with open arms of the u.n. adopts a treaty and trolling exports of conventional weapons would bring to advance humanitarian

concerns but critics say it's phrasing leaves too much room for interpretation those details on that story another story and just. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't i'm trying hard is a big picture. it's technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

the international airport in the very heart of moscow. from moscow this is r t with me will receive shea the united nations has adopted its first ever treaty designed to control the global trade of conventional weapons and the act was already dubbed historic although the document has no inforce what mechanism let's have a closer look and see what it's aimed at achieving here while at the treaty bans

countries from exporting arms to embargoed states son prohibits the sale of weapons to those who could use them to carry out war crimes and acts of terrorism and the document also requires states to prevent conventional arms from from reaching that of the black market now the un chief said the document will become a powerful new tool to help prevent human rights abuses but some states point out that the deal is ambiguous and lacking clarity artie's guy nature can now report on what it means for the world's major arms exporters. the u.s. accounts for thirty percent of global arms sales russia twenty six percent germany friends china seven six five percent respectively the figures are provided by the stockholm international peace research institute they cover the last four years of arm sales by the way this global. is worth around seventy billion dollars and four out of five of the world's largest stakeholders in this business happen to be

permanent members of the un security council two out of which abstained from the vote that is russia and china they cite a lack of clarity in the language of the treaty in the part where it says arms transfers should be subjected to risk and human rights assessments first so it's supposed to tie arms sales to the buyers record on human rights which sounds like a very good idea but then this raises all kinds of questions like do brain or saudi arabia have a perfect human rights record so the treaty leaves lots of room for all kinds of interpretation is russia being actually supportive of the effort to regulate arms sales says it abstained from voting for the treaty also because it has not been arms sales to non-state actors. despite the calls of a number of states what was not reflected was the ban of the supply of weapons to non authorized state and cities this is a significant shortcoming which will inevitably have impact on the effectiveness of the international arms trade treaty. even though the united states supported the

treaty at the year when congress has made it clear that they will not let anyone tell the us who to sell arms to so it would be like the kyoto protocol the one that set obligations on industrialized countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases the u.s. also signed it and yet never ratified it gun manufacturers like lockheed martin or a northrop grumman have an army of lobbyists on capitol hill to make sure that their ability to sell weapons and profit is not constrained in any way but then thomas countryman the system secretary of state told that the american delegation to the talks defended the treaty saying it will actually give american weapons manufacturers a better competitive competitive position in the world so maybe the u.s. government is actually trying to help it's done producers by supporting the treaty anyway the international community seems united on one thing and that is something has to be done about the unabated flow of arms in the world but as they say the

devil is in the details in washington i'm going to check out. our list about one of our top stories here on out of the ongoing across on the korean peninsula the ongoing war of words between the north and south of many south koreans fairing an all out conflict as pyongyang is getting in cresting aggressively more posture when it comes to well looking for some sort of international conflict let's speak now. on the board of directors for the u.s. and novak were so it's a two down on the advisory board of the korea truth commission thanks for joining us here on r.t. it would appear that the neither side seems to benefit economically from pyongyang's latest decision not to allow south koreans to work in a joint industrial zone why is the north taking such a step. well basically there's a whole history of leading up to this this current impasse have been reached.

under military constipate of meeting to south korea and the united states held back in october they developed a new military plan for north korea so that even a minor conflict devote united states and south korea would hit north korea with considerable force and according to the south korean ministry of national defense policy reply in both peace time and war time under the missile technology control regime united states allow itself to create an exemption list of missile ranges but so they could now are lifting missiles work of the entire territory of north korea north korea is under sanctions basically sort of north korea how the few options to to resist and but yet i'm sure you talk about you talk about international law here and the issues of sanctions i mean is there some already saying that in north korea playing with fire for example by restarting its yongbyon nuclear facility or it is it

a vital move for the country at this point you're saying that south korea has has an exemption when it comes to using ballistic missiles it's not the same for north korea. you know as far as starting the nuclear facility as a symbolic move on north korea it's harder it really makes little difference that serves a nuclear weapons program or take many months to restart the facility and the best it can produce enough for tony and for one per year i think the rhetoric coming out of north korea and the restarting of the young beyond nuclear facility are symbolic on north korea's part and they basically said you know message the united states look you're hitting us with sanctions including sanctions on the north korea's foreign trade back which its primary institution for international trade and you're having all these threatening military moves in making toward us this is if you think you're going to crush us we're going to hit your back harder than you expect and i think this is based of you with a message to north korea and we understand the message you're suggesting from pyongyang that i mean ultimately it would seem certainly to some the pyongyang and

washington just going head to head in this crisis up pyongyang likes to do a ballistic missile test a couple of months ago saying it's flying a satellite in into the atmosphere up into space then we have america that's posturing its military warships near the korean peninsula who's a full do you think about hops pyongyang and washington both just at fault here. well you want to know they got north korea know that if their approach diplomatically going to go but if it's red or blue respond with burma or you kind of a feedback loop where you're bombing restrictions come in and cut on a door see a support network and nothing since the last several year. obama following a policy of what he called strategic patience which is in effect a slow strangulation of north korea through sanctions and economic measures in the hope general collapse of some point in time. so i think it's i'm sorry if there is

a hope that there's a hope what americans call the pyongyang what will collapse at some point in time that then what is that hope about a bit about america having an opportunity for another geo strategic positioning i mean isn't the u.s. presence in south korea and other parts of all the far east big enough was never big enough united states hundreds over a hundred bases throughout the military to drive the world. north korea collapses united states stablished military bases right on the border with china and then circle many of that nation. also because of our middle deposits and north korea which would be useful for exploitation by your corporations and united states. has never tolerated countries that won't put its economy at the service of its foreign perforation so the number of. what more goodies need to it's such a conversation requires more time than we have here i wanted to pick you up a moment ago on the issue of china but i'm afraid of gregory we've just run out of time we'll have to continue this i delighted that he went out to gregory lead gel

in the advisory board of the korea policy institute think tank joining us live on on tape thank you very much indeed the thang. this is r t live from moscow when the taliban has now claimed responsibility for attacking government offices in western afghanistan at least seven people have reportedly been killed and more than seventy five wounded during the onslaught of a ton of fire are the latest violence comes to spite attempts by cobol to appease militants the afghan president said the taliban could be given the chance to enter politics and even contest the country's top post quoting two hundred karzai the taliban leader may run for the presidency in next year's elections but only if the militants renounce terrorism and enter torques r.t. contributor afshin rattansi says the insurgencies gaining popularity among afghans the occupying nato forces is actually helping to boost their strength. he merican

public may be thinking what was the point of this debris relatives of all those thousands dead they must be getting a very strange picture of afghanistan and the taliban under mullo more is going to run afghanistan is it going to be a pull out of course lots of people are asking one hundred fifty thousand nato troops there now and already people are talking about fifteen thousand remaining on five different bases the continuous drone attacks the atrocities committed by u.s. and nato are nice to have troops of course do catalyze pro taliban support it was only in the past week or so that a u.s. commando unit were thrown out of new york province after allegations of complicity in kidnapping torture and summary executing people in new york province because i told the americans they better get out and of course those kinds of atrocities abound i wouldn't support an artsy zalewski catherine office reported from afghanistan many times and tends to cover the region she says or the taliban

doesn't want talks with karzai because they consider him to be a western viceroy. he's made this point numerous times before calling for the taliban to participate in elections is that stand is so open and democratic that even mullah omar were he to disarm essentially could run for office of course the reality is that this is a complete political nonstarter because the taliban have been very clear in their position they do not see the karzai government as being legitimate they have openly called it as a puppet of the united states they refused to hold any sort of negotiations much less view the constitution as legitimate or offer any sort of candidate so again this is just sort of wishful thinking perhaps or rather a rhetorical remark by president hamid karzai than any sort of reality on the ground because the taliban has refused to negotiate with him there really isn't very much that cars i can do in the situation for the taliban the number one position is this affectively to remove all foreign troops from the ground in afghanistan in order to do that why negotiate with the so-called puppet government

when we can talk to the occupiers themselves but there's divisions within the taliban as well do they actually hold negotiations or do they fight until the occupiers the u.s. forces leave the country there's also divisions within the obama administration about this because while this war has been encouraged probably costly to the united states and the taliban has long been an enemy for the u.s. many factions in the administration see the political solution as the only possible sort of way forward i mean it's been more than clear that military might isn't enough to eradicate the taliban so somehow talks have to take place but at the end of the day i don't think anyone actually removed tickly expects peace with the taliban anytime in the next few years for sure when i was in afghanistan most of the afghans that i've spoken to have seen this deadline with with the looming trepidation in fact they think that once the americans draw down and there's no indication the americans will fully withdraw from the country but of course that will leave

a massive power vacuum there's the potential for the country to descend into civil war and it also really remains to be seen what happens with the elections and. and fourteen because again if the country doesn't it isn't seen as sort of having a legitimate. non corrupt elections that really could spark much much much further unrest than we've seen so far. live from moscow this is arts he behind bars without charge and starving for justice hunger strikers at guantanamo bay have been engaged in a desperate act of defiance now for well nearly two months the risk of their health is growing rapidly but u.s. officials continue to downplay the scale of the crisis the military says thirty nine are refusing food but lawyers insist that number is three times higher people of other newscasts certainly clash head to head on this issue a bit later on our city. so these individuals that thomas keeps wanting described as innocent based upon the obama administration's review had the

opportunity to go in front of a federal judge and get an order requiring their release and failed to do so so suggesting that the court has concluded there is a legal basis to hold them so i think thomas overstates his case and then with respect to what charles is saying you know if you don't find out so now because i try not to engage in a little spanish i don't want to engage in are you are you are you alone or your little level i think that i think let me finish please i don't want to gauge this question as a political matter but i think it's going to be very difficult for any president whether it's obama or bush or republicans or democrats in congress to want to expend political capital on a politically unfavorable call it does that have to do it justice what does it have to do is just what does that have to do with justice off what does it have to do it just exactly thomas go ahead yes it's tough but you do it it's tough but you do what you do the right thing by the way i don't know whether you know it but i'm the guy who won the right behavior as corpus for those people and if you really know what it's

a very thin review of the most any evidence that the government has could you could justify their holding it under hey b.s. that's why the administration did a thorough detailed review for each individual to see whether they really posed a threat and it concluded they don't and they should be released. you can see the crosstalk debate of fifteen thirty g.m.t. here on the next however the issues the mainstream media rarely pay attention to well they'd rather not breaking the abby martin just a moment. choose your language. of choice because with the infidels going to say still some of us.

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the petition launched by an organization called roots action is calling out the obama administration saying that it is quote widen the use of drones and other instruments of remote killing in several countries and it made perpetual war look even more perpetual than ever since just me or is it a bit ironic that a peace award is going to the same man that's managed to completely destabilize it it's about that time let's break the set. over the last six months on the show there's been one argument that has stood out the concept that democracy is a form of government should give all voices an equal opportunity to be heard to give all ideas a fair and equal platform to be communicated to the voting public and no i'm not about to start ranting about how disappointed i am with the outcome of the twenty two of general elections but it's because this is an off year that i think important it's.